Improvement in box-openers



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Box-Openers.

Patent ed Nov. 11, 1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

MATHIAS J. HINDEN, OF DETROIT,-MIGHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ADOLPHFBEUND, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOX-OPENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,454, dated Novemberll, 1873; application filed February 18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATHIAS J. HINDEN, of Detroit, in the county ofWayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Box Openers; and I do;

' driving the nail home, a blade for loosening and removing covers ofboxes, and a jaw for withdrawing nails so bent that they cannot beremoved with the claw. The invention consists in the combination andarrangement of the various parts, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the handle; B, the claw forwithdrawing nails; 0, the pointed hammer for starting the nails indriving; D, the hammer-head for driving the nails home, and E the bladefor starting the covers of small boxes. This blade is provided with anotch, a, with which crooked nails may be removed. The whole may be castin one piece, of suitable metal; or the blade may be made of steel andinserted in the handle and securedby a rivet.

A tool thus made is all that a ciganpacker needs for opening and nailingup the boxes.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, the described implement, having thehandle A, claw B, hammer-heads G D, and blade E, as herein specified.

MATHIAS J. HINDEN.

Witnesses:

H. F. EBERTS,

H. S. SPRAGUE.

